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You could adjust the indexing locations to reduce this amount or it may be trying to index locations not needed to be indexed. At the...

You've already said you only use Defender, so that leaves, as I also indicated in my first post on this I think, the possibility of any...

Just chkdsk /r

I have not upgraded Windows recently.

Indexing is set to Classic. Current files indexed is 590172.

OK, I've been busy for a while, unable to respond. The chkdsk /f /r /x thing, I just wanted to rule out the possibility of any...

As I say, it has taken six hours each time. According to settings 'Indexed 590009'. I have done CrystalDisk, now going to try HP...

I don't have any idea how to use CrystalDIsk. In the absence of any instructions how to export a report, I've taken a screenshot...

Following the last post, tried re-enabling from Services.msc, and a reboot (following my fourth index rebuild). Didn't seem to have...

After a rebuild is complete, do I then use services.msc to restart Windows Search immediately after, or I am supposed to do a reboot...

This is a desktop PC by the way, not a laptop.

I thought that by doing chkdsk c: /f /r /x, that it would do a comprehensive check for bad sectors etc.. However, as I said a couple of...

chkdsk c: /scan result:

I have used the desktop one, but it doesn't report anything. When I tried c: /f /r /x, the PC reboots, it reports preparing to scan...

Right, so just finished third (!) rebuild. Now for services.msc, and change to automatic, and then a reboot.